Iran claims to have conducted successful space launch

Iran claims to have completed a successful space launch, with the rocket carrying with it satellite equipment as well as a military payload.

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00:00Iran said it conducted a successful space launch.

00:05The latest for its programme, the West alleges, improves Tehran's ballistic missile programme.

00:12The announcement comes as heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel's continued

00:16war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and as an uneasy ceasefire holds in Lebanon.

00:23The US has previously said Iran's satellite launches defy a UN security resolution and

00:28called on Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of delivering

00:33nuclear weapons.

00:35UN sanctions related to Iran's ballistic missile programme expired in October 2023.